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Ubiquitous intelligent object : modeling and applications
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Brachytherapy structural shielding calculations using Monte Carlo generated, monoenergetic data
To provide a method for calculating the transmission of any broad photon beam with a known energy spectrum in the range of 20 keV-1090 keV, through concrete and lead, based on the superposition of corresponding monoenergetic data obtained from Monte Carlo simulation
Lectin ligands: New insights into their conformations and their dynamic behavior and the discovery of conformer selection by lectins
The mysteries of the functions of complex glycoconjugates have enthralled scientists over decades. Theoretical considerations have ascribed an enormous capacity to store information to oligosaccharides, In the interplay with lectins sugar-code words of complex carbohydrate structures can be deciphered. To capitalize on knowledge about this type of molecular recognition for rational marker/drug design, the intimate details of the recognition process must be delineated, To this aim the required approach is garnered from several fields, profiting from advances primarily in X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and computational calculations encompassing molecular mechanics, molecular dynamics and homology modeling. Collectively considered, the results force us to jettison the preconception of a rigid ligand structure. On the contrary, a carbohydrate ligand may move rather freely between two or even more low-energy positions, affording the basis for conformer selection by a lectin. By an exemplary illustration of the interdisciplinary approach including up-to-date refinements in carbohydrate modeling it is underscored why this combination is considered to show promise of fostering innovative strategies in rational marker/drug design
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Local and Remote Controls on Arctic Mixed-Layer Evolution
In this study Lagrangian large-eddy simulation of cloudy mixed layers in evolving warm air masses in the Arctic is constrained by in situ observations from the recent PASCAL field campaign. A key novelty is that time dependence is maintained in the large-scale forcings. An iterative procedure featuring large-eddy simulation on microgrids is explored to calibrate the case setup, inspired by and making use of the typically long memory of Arctic air masses for upstream conditions. The simulated mixed-phase clouds are part of a turbulent mixed layer that is weakly coupled to the surface and is occasionally capped by a shallow humidity layer. All eight simulated mixed layers exhibit a strong time evolution across a range of time scales, including diurnal but also synoptic fingerprints. A few cases experience rapid cloud collapse, coinciding with a rapid decrease in mixed-layer depth. To gain insight, composite budget analyses are performed. In the mixed-layer interior the heat and moisture budgets are dominated by turbulent transport, radiative cooling, and precipitation. However, near the thermal inversion the large-scale vertical advection also contributes significantly, showing a distinct difference between subsidence and upsidence conditions. A bulk mass budget analysis reveals that entrainment deepening behaves almost time-constantly, as long as clouds are present. In contrast, large-scale subsidence fluctuates much more strongly and can both counteract and boost boundary-layer deepening resulting from entrainment. Strong and sudden subsidence events following prolonged deepening periods are found to cause the cloud collapses, associated with a substantial reduction in the surface downward longwave radiative flux. ©2019. The Authors
An X-ray and Optical Investigation of the Environments Around Nearby Radio Galaxies
Investigations of the cluster environment of radio sources have not shown a
correlation between radio power and degree of clustering. However, it has been
demonstrated that extended X-ray luminosity and galaxy clustering do exhibit a
positive correlation. This study investigates a complete sample of 25 nearby (z
less than 0.06) radio galaxies which are not cataloged members of Abell
clusters. The environment of these radio galaxies is studied in both the X-ray
and the optical by means of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS), ROSAT pointed
observations, and the Palomar optical Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). X-ray
luminosities and extents are determined from the RASS, and the DSS is used to
quantify the degree of clustering via the spatial two-point correlation
coefficient, Bgg. Of the 25 sources, 20 are greater than sigma detections in
the X-ray and 11 possessed Bgg's significantly in excess of that expected for
an isolated galaxy. Adding the criterion that the X-ray emission be resolved,
10 of the radio galaxies do appear to reside in poor clusters with extended
X-ray emission suggestive of the presence of an intracluster medium. Eight of
these galaxies also possess high spatial correlation coefficients. Taken
together, these data suggest that the radio galaxies reside in a low richness
extension of the Abell clusters. The unresolved X-ray emission from the other
galaxies is most likely associated with AGN phenomena. Furthermore, although
the sample size is small, it appears that the environments of FR I and FR II
sources differ. FR I's tend to be more frequently associated with extended
X-ray emission (10 of 18), whereas FR II's are typically point sources or
non-detections in the X-ray (none of the 7 sources exhibit extended X-ray
emission).Comment: 28 page postscript file including figures and tables, plus one
landscape table and 5 GIF figure
Gauge copies in the Landau-DeWitt gauge: a background invariant restriction
The Landau background gauge, also known as the Landau-DeWitt gauge, has found
renewed interest during the past decade given its usefulness in accessing the
confinement-deconfinement transition via the vacuum expectation value of the
Polyakov loop, describable via an appropriate background. In this Letter, we
revisit this gauge from the viewpoint of it displaying gauge (Gribov) copies.
We generalize the Gribov-Zwanziger effective action in a BRST and background
invariant way; this action leads to a restriction on the allowed gauge
fluctuations, thereby eliminating the infinitesimal background gauge copies.
The explicit background invariance of our action is in contrast with earlier
attempts to write down and use an effective Gribov-Zwanziger action. It allows
to address certain subtleties arising in these earlier works, such as a
spontaneous and thus spurious Lorentz symmetry breaking, something which is now
averted.Comment: 14 pages. v2: version to appear in Phys.Lett.B, with minor
modifications and extra reference
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